LyddAir is a British charter

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based at

Lydd Airport London Ashford Airport is east of the town of Lydd and south of Ashford in the district of Folkestone and Hythe, in Kent, England. Originally named Lydd Ferryfield, it is now also known as London Ashford Airport, despite being from Lon ...

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. It operates scheduled charter passenger services,

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and air freight services, as well as an ACMI or

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programme. It is based at

History

The airline was established and soon started operations in June 1997. Jonathan Gordon (Managing Director of LyddAir) acquired Lydd Airport in June 1996 and a year later started Sky-Trek Airlines as a wholly owned subsidiary of his aviation consultancy, Atlantic Bridge Aviation. It was relaunched as LyddAir in April 2002. The airline is wholly owned by South East Airports and has seven employees (at March 2007). In November 2018, it was announced the airline had ended scheduled flights and continue to focus on charter flights only.

Fleet

As of April 2022 the LyddAir fleet includes the following

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:Our Fleet
retrieved 20 April 2022

Historical fleet

* Beech Jet 400A

References

External links

Lydd Air official website
{{Airlines of the United Kingdom Charter airlines of the United Kingdom Airlines established in 2001 British companies established in 2001 2001 establishments in England Lydd Companies based in Kent